Performing a basic terminal preauthorisation
- Press Menu key on the home screen, and press 1 for Transactions, then press 5 for Pre-Auth.
- Press 2 to select Completion.
- Enter your pre-authorisation completion amount and press Enter.
- Enter the 6 digit approval code found on the merchant receipt and press Enter.
- Press Enter to confirm the pre-authorisation transaction retrieved by the terminal. If the pre-authorisation transaction is not found on the terminal, the customer’s credit card will be required. Proceed to next step 5a. Otherwise, proceed to Step 6.
- Ask customer to tap, insert or swipe their card.
- Enter the RRN from the pre-authorisation merchant receipt and press Enter.
- Enter the pre-authorisation amount balance as printed on the pre-auth receipt and press Enter. Some terminals may skip this step based on merchant MCC classification.
- Enter the pre-authorisation date (DD/MM) and press Enter. Some terminals will skip to Step 7 after this step.
- Press Enter to confirm the completion transaction. The merchant receipt will print automatically.
- An Approved acknowledgement displays once the completion has been processed successfully and the merchant receipt will print automatically.
- Press Yes to print the customer receipt if required.
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